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Having prayerfully repented of being unnecessarily offended, having prayerfully asked God to mature you to the place of “overlooking offense,” now ask God to give you the supernatural strength to cover your brother or sister’s sin, even the sins committed against you.

How does that feel? Does it feel that you are making light of what was done to you? Then pray about that. Does it still feel that it is about you? Then pray about that. The aim of God in the Peter passage we are exploring is that we would be so other centered in the church that the first thing I think of when you step on my toes is the divine enabling that God has given me to cover your sin before it ever becomes known.

Remember, “Whoever covers an offense seeks love,” Proverbs 17:9.

Pray today that God would make you the kind of person in church who is not only never offended but that covers the sins of others for glory of God. And pray that God will grow your fellow church members in the same way, chances are that you will need it more than they do.

Now, again, we are submitting ourselves to God for the sake of growing our Christian faith and our Christian church. By personally repenting more deeply we will return on the next Lord’s Day ready for a deeper fellowship.

Today, prayerfully repent of being offended by what is not actually sin. It is time for us to recognize that this is a version of spiritual adolescence and we can grow out of it. Your job and mine is to cover sin (which we will pray about tomorrow), not to raise small things to the level of offense.

Pray. And may God raise us up to be thick skinned spiritual adults who help others grow in Christ.

“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”

This week we are submitting ourselves to God for the sake of growing our Christian faith and our Christian church.

Today, in your prayers for one another, give up your right to be offended, even if – especially if – you think you are justified. Here’s why:

It is wisdom to overlook an offense. Proverbs 19:11

It is hatred to spread the matter. Proverbs 10:12

It is glory to overlook an offense. Proverbs 19:11

Today, so that God is seen to be glorious in His Church, give up your self-justified right to be offended and remember that answer to the question. “What’s wrong with the church?” I am. I am the offender and Jesus has covered all of my sin.

“The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.”

This week we are submitting ourselves to God for the sake of growing our Christian faith and our Christian church. We start by acknowledging a version of the old G.K. Chesterton question. “What’s wrong with the church?” The answer is, “I am.” We are more deeply repenting of those things in our hearts that we allow to keep us from one another in the church.

Today, pray for one another. Pray for everyone in the church that you think of today. Pray that they would experience the covering of their sins through the grace of Christ and the grace of the church. Pray, especially, for anyone in the church that you were mad at today, anyone who has offended you. Pray what you honestly feel and then repent of that anger and ask that God would make you want what he wants for them. Then pray for what God wants for them.

Today, pray for one another. Each one us need prayer and need to pray. Each one of us needs God to act in our lives today.